What is this Thing Called Love
Love for sale
You’d be So Nice to Come Home To
Easy to Love
It’s Alright With Me
Night & day
Dream dancing
I’ve Got You Under My skin
Get Out of Town
What is this Thing Called Love
Torrie Zito – piano
John Guiffrida – bass
Chuck Hughes – drums
This record was originally released on Tony
Bennett’s own Improv label, it was recorded in the 1970’s and
consists of an interesting collection of the lesser known songs
of the great American tunesmiths, Porter, Rogers, Berlin etc.
On this new release from Concorde, the Cole Porter Medley has
been added. Pianist Zito wrote the arrangements for the large
orchestra used in the backings, the charts are good and the
orchestra exceptional.
It was nice to hear the verse on As Time Goes
By, a song that just doesn’t seem to date. Tony Bennett is one
of the last of the super star singers the USA produced. He carries
on the tradition of Sinatra, Davies and Martin, but he is of
course, his own man. His voice is immediately identifiable;
I can’t imagine anyone not picking him out in a blindfold test!
Although most of the earlier songs on the album are not well
known, they are nevertheless good songs and Bennett makes the
most of all of them. There’ll Be Some Changes starts out with
vocal over a walking bass before the band kicks in and then
the arrangement moves to a faster tempo. Every Tony Bennett
recording and every live performance I have ever heard, he is
always working with the very best musicians and this record
is no exception.
After enjoying the unfamiliar songs of the
US Songbook, it was nice then to hear the Cole Porter Medley.
These tunes are as good as anything that has been written before
or since. Many of them feature in the library of most jazz musicians.
Tony Bennett is a legend in popular music,
who has a great jazz feel, a unique voice and he knows how to
sell a song to his audience, I enjoyed every track.
Don Mather
CD Reviews
Concord
Records CCD-2195-2
